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Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, says President Bola Tinubu has finally adopted his 21-year-old power sector blueprint as a solution to Nigeria’s electricity supply challenges.

Atiku’s spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

Atiku said the Tinubu administration has finally embraced a policy direction he first advocated more than two decades ago.

According to him, the recent admission by the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, that Nigeria can no longer depend solely on large, centralised power plants amounts to a belated endorsement of the decentralised electricity generation model he championed more than 20 years ago.

“It should not take a government three years in office to discover what was obvious more than two decades ago.

A government that thinks before it acts would have fixed the system before asking citizens to pay more. Unfortunately, this administration has done the exact opposite—raising tariffs first and only now beginning to think about the reforms required to justify those increases.”

Atiku said that during his tenure as Vice President of Nigeria, he consistently urged President Olusegun Obasanjo to decentralise electricity generation by harnessing Nigeria’s diverse energy resources, including hydroelectric dams, solar, gas, and other viable sources.

This has been my position for over two decades,” he stated.

REDshouse:
Lol ...this should be thrash .... ATIKU that squandered 16b naira power sector money said he had a blue print ...he should have actualise the blue print when he was in power ....

A failure will always seek to clinge on nothing

seunmsg:
This dude was Vice President for 8 years. Obasanjo gave him absolute power to manage the economy and instead of implementing whatever blueprint he's talking, he simply used his position as Chairman of National Privatization Council to buy over half of Nigeria's assets at very ridiculous prices. After selling the assets to him self, he also refused to pay the displaced workers their pension and severance benefits. Just last week, Tinubu just completed the payment of retirement benefits of PHCN staff.

Today, Atiku has the audacity to claim someone is copying his useless blueprint. What nonsense blueprint is he talking?

seunmsg:
This dude was Vice President for 8 years. Obasanjo gave him absolute power to manage the economy and instead of implementing whatever blueprint he's talking, he simply used his position as Chairman of National Privatization Council to buy over half of Nigeria's assets at very ridiculous prices. After selling the assets to him self, he also refused to pay the displaced workers their pension and severance benefits. Just last week, Tinubu just completed the payment of retirement benefits of PHCN staff.

Today, Atiku has the audacity to claim someone is copying his useless blueprint. What nonsense blueprint is he talking?

DeOTR:
PDP spent 16 years in power, Atiku spent half of those as VP, but couldn't implement his own blueprint?
Do you these even listen to themselves while speaking at all? I mean, this doesn't sound like a statement that's coming from someone who should be allowed to lead a team of 5 laborers talk less of a country with 200 million people.

SlavaUkraini:
Former Vice President of Nigeria and Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, says President Bola Tinubu has finally adopted his 21-year-old power sector blueprint as a solution to Nigeria’s electricity supply challenges.

Atiku’s spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

Atiku said the Tinubu administration has finally embraced a policy direction he first advocated more than two decades ago.

According to him, the recent admission by the Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, that Nigeria can no longer depend solely on large, centralised power plants amounts to a belated endorsement of the decentralised electricity generation model he championed more than 20 years ago.

“It should not take a government three years in office to discover what was obvious more than two decades ago.

A government that thinks before it acts would have fixed the system before asking citizens to pay more. Unfortunately, this administration has done the exact opposite—raising tariffs first and only now beginning to think about the reforms required to justify those increases.”

Atiku said that during his tenure as Vice President of Nigeria, he consistently urged President Olusegun Obasanjo to decentralise electricity generation by harnessing Nigeria’s diverse energy resources, including hydroelectric dams, solar, gas, and other viable sources.

This has been my position for over two decades,” he stated.

https://dailypost.ng/2026/07/26/electricity-tinubu-finally-copied-my-power-sector-blueprint-atiku/

Atiku said that during his tenure as Vice President of Nigeria, he consistently urged President Olusegun Obasanjo to decentralise electricity generation by harnessing Nigeria’s diverse energy resources, including hydroelectric dams, solar, gas, and other viable sources.

brain54:
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Reasons I've always preferred atiku to any of the front liners.


He is the most mature and capable. I'm not saying he is the Messiah but amongst the major contenders he would have performed best.


If he was politically smart he would have been president by now.


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brain54:
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I wonder what you mean by absolute power to manage economy under a sitting president.



Some of you talk like you have never:

1: worked in an organization before.

2: managed a business/organization before.


Talk less of politics or running a whole country.



Make Una no dey because of politics dey make stupid and disgusting arguments abeg.


Nothing triggers me more than disgusting arguments.


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DeOTR:
PDP spent 16 years in power, Atiku spent half of those as VP, but couldn't implement his own blueprint?
Do you these even listen to themselves while speaking at all? I mean, this doesn't sound like a statement that's coming from someone who should be allowed to lead a team of 5 laborers talk less of a country with 200 million people.